Bianchi Biz Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In this first blog post in the series, Judy Kuramata of Integrate Communications describes the business and communications environment in Tokyo, Japan and offers advice on navigating her home market. Effectively navigating Japan’s communications and PR landscape demands a nuanced approach.

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Cision

JUNE 13, 2016

At her recent webinar, “ Making PR Pop: Is Your Brand Standing Out In The Crowd? Cision’s Heidi Sullivan discussed the importance of integrating your communication efforts. Getting your brand’s name in a newspaper doesn’t cut it anymore. You need to be tuned in to the conversation surrounding your brand.

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Sword and the Script

APRIL 2, 2024

Top stories in today’s summary of PR news: Cision shutters the HARO brand; Agility adds “Intelligent Insights”; PR tech company replaces employees with AI On the first Tuesday of every month, I sort through all the news I can find on PR technology or comms tech and present it in a summary post like this one.

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Agility PR Solutions

JUNE 3, 2020

Digital PR is an inseparable part of communicating in the digital age. While conventional PR is still being used to generate coverage and create a strong brand presence, the shift to digital means companies need to invest more in digital PR. Digital PR goes beyond newspaper and TV journalists.

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The Hoyt Organization

APRIL 23, 2024

With a robust PR strategy, your nonprofit can easily differentiate its messaging from the competition, and garner support from the community. Additionally, you can easily reach the right audiences and communicate your message effectively. Social media also allows for direct communication with potential donors and supporters.

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Presspage

JUNE 11, 2019

We’ve been touting the importance of the brand storyteller in your company’s newsroom for a while now. But we would be remiss in failing to mention the vital role of the communications editor. In today’s busy brand centers, the role of the communications editor has greatly evolved.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Then, over the weekend, KFC cooked up a masterful ad that ran in two UK daily newspapers. First, when is the last time you saw a major brand scramble its own logo? It delivers as an apology to customers and franchise owners, a public expression of frustration, and a show of brand personality. Well done, KFC.

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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 23, 2016

Brands have long (well, as least for the last 7-8 years) relied on Twitter as a customer service tool and a brand management tool. When looking over competing brands’ Twitter accounts I noticed a trend: Very few of them were responding to any tweets. And, if that’s the case, why would brands want to interact there?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 7, 2018

His goal was to build competitive advantage for the American Tobacco Company’s Lucky Strike brand. In one of the first ever media stunts, Bernays alerted the press that the protests would be happening and instructed the women to tell their stories to the major outlets of the time: newsreels, newspapers, and the three press associations.

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PR in High Definition

APRIL 9, 2019

As a brand with ballsy comms, solid stunts and tasty baked goods, the recognition is well-earned. Tenacious brands that start from the ground up and become incredibly successful are often known as cockroaches – it doesn’t sound glamorous but they can survive anything! Here’s a run-down of the most common ones.

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Onclusive

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Mika Stambaugh is an Emmy award winning journalist and dynamic entrepreneur known for her creative strategies in executing media and communication campaigns. I came to the name after incorporating my initials — ‘MAS’ is Spanish for ‘more’ — and ‘ink’ references pen-to-paper; writing your story to build and manage your communications.

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Flack's Revenge

JUNE 2, 2021

Plus it seems a bit disingenuous to shun some media Q & A about the game, yet embrace brand endorsement deals that add to her public profile. Another wrinkle: the newspaper reported that poor communications played a role.

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5W PR

MAY 7, 2021

Using digital PR tools is a great way to ensure that brands are doing everything they can to be on-trend. Using tools to connect with industry-specific experts, supporters, and potential clients and consumers allows brands to manage their time. Digital PR is more than press releases and crisis communications.

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PRSay

MAY 3, 2019

On April 27, Bloomberg published an inaccurate, one-sided piece titled “Public Relations Jobs Boom as Buffet Sees Newspapers Dying.”. As the article noted, billionaire investor Warren Buffet sees the traditional newspaper slipping away. We all do, but it’s wrong to link the entire change in the media industry to the PR profession.

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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It serves as a communication tool to reach journalists, media outlets, and the public. Media monitoring involves systematically tracking and analyzing media content (such as news articles, social media posts, and broadcast segments) related to a specific brand, industry, or topic. What are Brand Mentions? sponsored posts).

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PRSay

DECEMBER 14, 2021

If social media has been an important communication tool, then the “metaverse” could be the next frontier of connectivity and interaction. Maybe that’s why brands like Nike have already started filing trademark applications for virtual goods. Smith, M.S. ,

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For a fee, any organization can upload their press release to a newswire service that distributes it directly to news organizations, much like the original news agencies like Associated Press fed reports to newspapers in the early days of electronic journalism. appeared first on Crenshaw Communications.

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Cision

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s not news that social media has taken the business world by storm, changing the way consumers research their purchases and creating an unprecedented opportunity for brands to build one-to-one relationships with their brand’s biggest fans. It’s a primary communications channel both internally and externally.

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PRSay

AUGUST 6, 2019

As Gen Z, individuals born starting in 1997 as defined by the Pew Research Center, replaces millennials as the primary consumer target for many corporations, organizations and brands, PR practitioners must delve into this consumer segment and understand how to effectively engage them for the next 15-20 years.

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MaccaPR

AUGUST 26, 2015

Your brand can share storytelling moments from its company history with your key stakeholders, too. Corporate histories are important to customers, employees, business partners, and community members. But, it takes strategic insight and smart planning to communicate a brand’s history well. Legos' Corporate History Video.

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The Hoyt Organization

JANUARY 17, 2024

Adopt A Multi-channel Strategy To ensure maximum visibility, it is crucial to leverage various communication channels. This includes traditional outlets like newspapers and magazines, broadcast media such as radio and TV, and digital platforms like blogs and online news sites.

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The Hoyt Organization

MARCH 25, 2024

With constant advancements in medicine and technology, healthcare organizations must have effective communication strategies to reach and engage with their target audience. Public relations is vital in healthcare by helping build brand reputation, promoting services, and establishing patient trust.

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Maxim Behar

JULY 26, 2021

According to Behar, Bulgaria should not have visas for tourists, but rather advertise its tourism more and appoint a minister of branding, who is more than needed now than ever. And although I am not a doctor, I communicate with doctors and I know that prevention should start from the earliest childhood.

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PRSay

JANUARY 9, 2020

When we began this decade, many local newspapers had at least 10 more pages of non-syndicated content than they do today. Organic reach on social media was also still possible for brands. Especially if you’re communicating with millennials and Gen Zers, social awareness should be a top priority in the coming year.

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PR in High Definition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this pre-social media age, newspapers ruled the roost. People went down to the local shop to get their daily newspaper, complete with some clever (and many not so clever) headline puns slapped on the front page. appeared first on Firefly Communications. However, social media platforms are now the town square.

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Communications Conversations

JANUARY 19, 2018

Let’s face it: Most brands suck when it comes to customer experience. If more brands thought through their customer experience the way the Jayhawks do, and paid attention to details in #RockChalk form, we’d see a lot more happy customers! Traditions are everything at The Phog–and they can be for brands, too.

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Cision

JUNE 21, 2016

Digital communication makes it easy for anyone to post about your brand. Morgan Givney, account manager at BizCom Associates, says brands need to put in the work to protect their reputation and maintain their online presence. Going into college I just knew that I would be a reporter at a newspaper. Is there a downside?

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Cision

JUNE 22, 2016

If no one believes in your brand, how can you convince anyone to invest in you? Tom Lindell, managing director of Exponent PR, says harnessing your brand advocates’ opinions is key to influencing sales and building a successful brand strategy. Tell us about Exponent PR’s approach to brand strategy. That’s good news.

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Journalistics

APRIL 17, 2013

When I first started talking about earned, owned, and paid (and no, I was far from the first to start talking about it), I would describe the owned channel as brands owning the media channel and would use the example of Nike being its own ESPN. Brands as media – silly marketer. The other half got it.

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Doctor Spin

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The rapid evolution of the internet and social media has transformed the communications industry—and PR professionals must adapt. Social media, blogs, podcasts, and other online channels presented new opportunities for communication. Please support my blog by sharing it with other PR- and communication professionals.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

A well-thought out communication plan can only take you so far. That made me realize that I could turn something I love to do into a career, so I looked at colleges where I could earn a dual major in both communications and business. When making important decisions, you need to rely on your own expertise and wisdom.

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Cision

APRIL 21, 2016

But for global brands, the right message may not be the same for every audience. Alan VanderMolen, president of international and WE+ at WE Communications, says you need to understand how to reach people in different markets to successfully communicate on a global scale. WE is a challenger brand and an independent.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

With the media landscape evolving at the speed of technology, communicators need to be able to listen dynamically to their audiences across multiple media channels. With Cision® Media Monitoring tools, communicators have the power to listen dynamically across different media types. Understand the Present – Where is your brand now?

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Stern + Associates

JANUARY 29, 2024

But social platforms are totally different from newspapers or websites: they require small, bite-sized presentations of news, increasingly in video rather than text form (though they will usually link text-based articles on the media outlet’s website). adults get their daily news : social media.

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Cision

APRIL 26, 2016

Ashley Simmons, director of communications at the Telecommunications Industry Association, says you must first develop a plan for how you will achieve your goals. What drew you to the field of public relations and communication? What are some of the key components of a successful communication strategy?

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Cision

APRIL 25, 2017

And yes, that includes parody content from brands. It certainly reinforces the need to communicate with transparent language because everyone’s antenna is up, looking for misinformation.”. As the AP’s first Washington correspondent, Lawrence Gobright, once said, “My business is to communicate facts.

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Landis PR

OCTOBER 11, 2021

You may have noticed that the “calendar” section in your neighborhood newspaper, online newsletter or event site is starting to populate with things to do. Are you hoping to drive brand/company awareness? Photo courtesy of Pixabay. By Robin Carr, LCI. Secure a specific number of registrations and attendees?

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